Accessing BIRT

Create a shortcut to the BIRT report designer to access it for report development.

Procedure

  1. Create a shortcut to the BIRT report designer from eclipse.exe.
  2. Update the target for the shortcut to include your IBM® Software Development Kit (SDK) or Java™ Development Kit file path, as shown in the following example:
    C:/birt_<version>/eclipse/eclipse.exe -vm "C:/ibm/Java<version>/jre/bin/javaw.exe" -vmargs -Xmx512m
  3. Start the BIRT report designer by using the newly created shortcut.
  4. Select an applicable workspace location for your environment. Select the Use this as default checkbox and click OK to access the BIRT report designer.